Botticelli - April, 2013

Thread Games
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Sticking with our (mostly) alphabetical run, our next letter is:

N

Have at it!

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IQ: Were you President of Egypt?

3

Is this one going to be someone I’ve actually heard of?

IQ1: Did you write stories set in the Dipple?
IQ2: Did you play a butler who doubled as gardener to keep your employer from knowing how bad finances were?
IQ3: Do you draw a webcomic, the cast of which includes a snow leopard, a skunk and an assortment of foxes?

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IQ: Are you a prominent Israeli politician?

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Not Nasser or Netanyahu.

If I knew, I’d tell you. Maybe?

No idea - 3 DQs.

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:smiley:

Andre Norton.
David Niven, in Candleshoe.
Doc Nickel, of The Whiteboard.
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?
DQ3: American?

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DQs for N:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
8

IQs:

Were you at the center of a Gilded Age NYC sex scandal?
Were you executed after a major fire swept through NYC, even though you were not directly implicated in its origin?
Did a dog possibly save your life by barking?

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EH - three DQs for you!

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IQ: Did Charlie Brown mention you while handing out scripts for the Christmas play?

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No idea - take a DQ.

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Evelyn Nesbit.
Nathan Hale.
Niles Crane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mWiPaQ872c

DQs:

Last name start with N?
European?
Living?

IQs:

Is your most famous public remark almost always made G-rated?
Did you write The Time Traveler’s Wife?
Were you the bad guy in a long-running pizza ad campaign?

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Going for Nebuchannezar

DQ: World leader?

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DQs for N:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. First name starts with N
  5. Not European
  6. Dead
  7. Not a world leader
15

Not John Nance Garner (“warm piss” vs. “warm spit”) or the Noid. DQ for the author.

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IQs:

  1. Are you a Cuban poet who won the Stalin Peace Prize?
  2. Are you a Hebrew prophet whose writings are usually paired with Ezra’s?
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No idea - two DQs for you. Welcome to the game, Prof!

18

Thanks! The poet is Nicolas Guillen; the prophet is Nehemiah.

DQs:

  1. Were you alive before the 16th Century?
  2. Are you Asian?
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DQs for N:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. First name starts with N
  5. Not European
  6. Dead
  7. Not a world leader
  8. Born after 1 January 1500 (I’m better with dates than centuries - hope that’s ok)
  9. Not Asian
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Correct as to both. The Time Traveler’s Wife was written by Audrey Niffenegger.

DQ:

Native of the Southern Hemisphere?

IQs:

Did you add an enduring “curl” to attire in your profession?
Did you marry a French dancer/choreographer?
Did Jonathan Demme co-produce a biopic about you?